From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 21:58:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29094 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29003 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA01097; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:35:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980612153533.08429@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:35:33 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Dillon Cc: "Paul T. Root" , adrian@virginia.edu, jedi@best.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4 button logitech mouse References: <19980611060715.49263@papillon.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Dillon on Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:59:12AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 June 1998 at 11:59:12 -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>>> I believe he's talking about the Logitec TrackMan Marble FX. I wanted one >>>> but my purchesing guy got the regular Marble. Which is nice too. >>>> >>> >>> I just bought one of the TrackMan Marble FXs, and X definately recognises >>> the fourth button. Haven't found much of a use for it yet, but it does DO >>> something at least. This is also the best trackball I've ever laid my >>> hands on (literally). :-) >> >> How does it recognize it? As button 4? Or as something else? > > I believe it recognizes it as button 4, yes. I use Afterstep > 1.4.something and the button acts almost exactly like Button 1 (i.e. > changes focus of windows, pops up a menu on the desktop, etc.) but doesn't > perform any of the actions that Button 1 does (menu selections, etc). It > does act differently when selecting text in an xterm, too. Clicking > button 1 causes only text you drag across to be selected, button 2 pastes > it, button 3 selects lines and button 4 selects words (I think.. I'm not > at my machine right now). Could you run xev for me, please, and send me the results? With a standard 3 button mouse, I get: ButtonPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35459606, (104,115), root:(237,168), state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES ButtonRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35459659, (104,115), root:(237,168), state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES ButtonPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35488856, (92,135), root:(225,188), state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES ButtonRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35488936, (92,135), root:(225,188), state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES ButtonPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35473926, (48,145), root:(181,198), state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES ButtonRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35473968, (48,145), root:(181,198), state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES I'd like to know what you get for button 4, the roller up, and the roller down. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message